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Permalink Reply by John Valentine on February 23, 2012 at 14:59

Definitely. There has never been any rigid time set for anyone who either wants to run a group or wants to buy a franchise - the time it starts is simply the time they think will attract the businesses to make the group work. I expect a Manchester evening group soon - a couple of ideas on the horizon. Bizset was always about offering choice of time to network, so Warrington staretd at 8.15am and Wigan starts at 9.30am that way people in the area can decide which time suits them best and attend accordingly. The same will be true of evenings.

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Permalink Reply by Shabaz Khan on February 23, 2012 at 15:05

How do you feel about a trial for an evening event at some stage even if is once a quarter? How many people would to try this?

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Permalink Reply by John Valentine on February 23, 2012 at 21:37

Yeah I have thought previously of a monthly evening event, but tbh I would probably just do a fortnightly one. I have been holding off on sorting one as it would be in Manchester but I have had a few people express and interest in a Manchester Centre franchise so was waiting on the resolution of that.

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Permalink Reply by Helen Jones on February 24, 2012 at 10:41

I would attend the odd one, maybe monthly or quarterly. To be honest my days are long enough as they are and I find the unstructured format of most evening events a bit too much like hard work at the end of a long day.
If they weren't too late and had a similar structure to the morning meetings I would definitely attend. I'm not really that keen on the 'fill a room and mingle' type events.

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Permalink Reply by John Valentine on February 24, 2012 at 15:34

Agree, I would never do a fill the room and eat pringles type of networking. It would be same format different times, as we have at the moment. I have an idea for the first afternoon evening one.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bebbington on February 28, 2012 at 16:49

In the past I have been a member of various business clubs which met early evening. None of them lasted very long, possibly because there was no enthusiasm for networking after a days work - most people want to go home for tea!

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Permalink Reply by John Valentine on February 28, 2012 at 16:56

Yeah, I know what you mean Andrew. Although most evening meetings tend to be at 6pm/6.30pm through to 8 and 8.30pm, I'm not a fan of these times as it take the whole of your evening and also means you have to have a concerted effort to finish work, then get out of the office/ leave your house later in the evening. To me it messes up your evening. My thought is a 5.15pm to 7.15pm meeting which you can get to after work, or if you are making a special trip to you know you will be home for 8pm, so have some family time/ tea. 

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Permalink Reply by Shabaz Khan on February 28, 2012 at 17:24

Yes have to agree that I have been to some great meeting at 15:00 till 17:30 and they have a big turn out so would not rule the afternoon/evening networking out..

 

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Permalink Reply by John Valentine on February 28, 2012 at 18:24

Much of it is 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. If I did a 4.15pm-6.15pm meet the journeys would not encounter as much traffic but you would cut short your day more than a 5.15pm start. A 6.15pm start would result in some traffic on the way but none on the way out at 8.15pm, but then your night is gone and you would expect to be fed at the meeting which would put the price up.

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